Why Is Priyanka Running So Fast?

What some of our leaders were up to on Monday, December 12.   IMAGE: Priyanka Gandhi Vadra turned 50 this year, but the lady can sure run like she did in school some 35 years ago. Photograph:......

Gandhi family not biased towards Kharge: Tharoor

Congress presidential polls candidate Shashi Tharoor on Sunday said the Gandhi family was blessing him and the other candidate Mallikarjun Kharge, and had no bias towards either of them. IMAGE:......

Congress manifesto to focus on jobs, farm and banking reforms

The party’s research department team, which Rajya Sabha member M V Rajeev Gowda heads, has sifted through the suggestions received in the last five months, and the manifesto is slated to be......

Congress in poll mode, sets up 3 key panels for 2019 elections

Gearing up for the 2019 Lok Sabha election, the Congress on Saturday formed three crucial committees to look after coordination, manifesto and publicity in the polls, with the old guard......

'Unemployment is unprecedented'

'In May 2020-2021, nearly 10 crores (100 million) lost jobs.''Covid is not the reason for the present crisis. It aggravated the crisis.' IMAGE: Students protest against the alleged erroneous......

The many problems confronting the IITs

One third of faculty positions vacant.One per cent seats empty.New IITs lag in infrastructure, research.Abhishek Waghmare and Sahil Makkar report. Indian Institutes of Technology are struggling to......

Ex-PlanCom member also doubts poverty figure

Former member of the Planning Commission, Bhalchandra Mungekar has told Business Standard that while poverty being reduced between 2004-05 and 2011-12 was a fact, the minimum estimates used......

New plan panel: Kirit Parikh out

Agriculture scientist and former Indian Council of Agricultural Research director-general R S Paroda and Boston Consulting Group senior advisor Arun Maira are likely to be made members of the......